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Southeastern Louisiana: Solomon’s motherless baby
When King Solomon was faced with two women claiming the same baby, he offered to cut the baby in half so that each claimant could have part of the child. The real mother, of course, was willing to give up the baby rather than see it die.
What if there had been a thousand claimants, and none of them had been willing to preserve the baby over their own interests?
Obviously, that motherless baby would have died — just like southeastern Louisiana’s coastal region. My (fairly long) post on this, here.
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One Response to “Southeastern Louisiana: Solomon’s motherless baby”
This is a heart breaking story. On this, as so mnay issues, we are a nation of myopic MAGOOS stumbling around completely oblivious to long term effects of our short term decisions.
Contrary to prevailing attitudes, tomorrow will come, and we will have to pay the piper for the dancing we do today.
The cost of preserving the health of coast lines is a pittance in relation to the eventual cost of not doing so.